Desensitization is... interesting. No... that's not quite right. Uh - what am I trying to say? Is it even desensitization that I'm encountering, or something else? So many questions are raised. What if...? What if...? Hahaha - just over-thinking, I guess. I need to get some sleep.

I was shopping for a toy gun to give to a young family friend for his birthday. Beside me was a young mother and her young son. She was gushing over how awesome the guns were and he responded by holding up this cage thing and saying "look mom, you catch butterflies with this!" She then told him he needed to act more like a boy, though pretty playfully.

I hate that you guys have made me conscious about these types of scenarios. Anyways, I thought it was fucking hilrious.

I was shopping for a toy gun to give to a young family friend for his birthday. Beside me was a young mother and her young son. She was gushing over how awesome the guns were and he responded by holding up this cage thing and saying "look mom, you catch butterflies with this!" She then told him he needed to act more like a boy, though pretty playfully.

I hate that you guys have made me conscious about these types of scenarios. Anyways, I thought it was fucking hilrious.

Poor kid will grow up to be a mass shooter now instead of a butterfly enthusiast. Gotta teach 'em young.

Of the things I'd like to permanently remove from existence altogether those stupid troll face things are definitely right up there.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Chapter IV, p. 448. - Adam Smith, Book 3, The Wealth of Nations